Improve your vision
by exercising your eye muscles! Improve your vision and throw away your glasses! Improve your vision in minutes a day!Do any of these claims sound familiar? Methods on how to improve your vision, naturally and more affordably than with glasses, can be seen in magazines and on the radio. The question is: do they work?
The short answer is no. Research has shown that such methods to improve vision are very unlikely to change your vision or your ocular shape enough to discontinue wearing glasses or contacts. Beware of any organization making such claims. You should also know it is against the law for a company to make false claims in order to make money.
Use caution when deciding to start a program to improve your vision. Studies have shown that eye exercises do little to improve your vision and may in fact be detrimental. Following a vision eye exercise program may cause harm to yourself or others if you don’t wear your contacts or glasses, such as while driving. Trying to improve your vision instead of visiting your eye doctor may allow serious and sight-threatening conditions to go untreated.
One program to improve vision helps with legitimate medical needs, such as your eyes not working together. The program consists of exercises which are called “vision therapy.” Vision therapy eye exercises are prescribed by an eye doctor, and you visit the eye doctor on a regular basis to perform the exercises and evaluate your own visual needs.
For a program to truly improve vision, visit your eye doctor to ask his or her advice. Your eye doctor will discuss options that are best for you, from contacts to glasses to surgery. There may be new developments in technology since your last eye doctor visit which offer better vision, comfort, convenience or even all three.